Untangling The Mystery Of Why Shoelaces Come Untied
Professor Oliver O’Reilly and two graduate students, Christine Gregg and Chris Daily-Diamond, have published a paper, in Proceedings Of The Royal Society A, titled “The roles of impact and inertia in the failure of a shoelace knot.” More >>
Kaveh Danesh
Kaveh Danesh is a PhD student in the Department of Economics. Before coming to Berkeley, he attended Duke and Harvard Universities; received Fulbright and National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate fellowships; served on Duke’s Board of Trustees; and interned as a writer at The White House. He is currently studying poverty and inequality. More >>
Rebecca Brunner
As a tropical field ecologist with a background in conservation policy and education, Becca researches strategies that aim to benefit both biodiversity and the livelihoods of local people. Originally from a small cornfield town in Illinois, she has lived and worked in many jungles around the world. She currently researches the nexus of ecosystem services and conservation, as well as synergies between biodiversity and human health. More >>
Katya Cherukimilli
Katya Cherukumilli, an environmental engineering graduate student at UC Berkeley, won first place in the Designing Solutions for Poverty contest for her super-low-cost approach to groundwater purification in India. More >>
Laura Sofen
Laura Sofen was thrilled to return to Chemistry in “one of the strongest graduate programs in the country, with opportunities I couldn’t find anywhere else,” she says. Her acceptance package also said she’d been selected to receive the Joe Lurie Returned Peace Corps Gateway Fellowship, which would cover her fees and tuition, provide a stipend, and include free room and board at International House for a year. More >>
Luke Patterson
With generous support from the Alan Dundes Graduate Fellowship, Luke Patterson has been able to make an unimaginable intellectual journey halfway around the world.The first in his immediate family to graduate from high school and the first in his extended family to go on to a university, Luke grew up in New South Wales and is of Koori (Indigenous Australian) descent. More >>
Selina Shieunda Makana
Selina earned her Bachelor’s degree in Education with a minor in Linguistics and African Literature at Kenyatta University, Kenya. In 2009/2010, she was a visiting scholar at Stanford University under the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching program (FLTA). Selina entered the African Diaspora Studies Ph.D. program in 2011. More >>
Elsa Massoc
For Elsa Massoc, a Ph.D. candidate in comparative politics, the opportunity to follow her passion changed her life. Elsa is supported at Berkeley by a graduate fellowship in political science from the Harold Wilensky Fund, which was created with the remaining principal from a charitable gift annuity by Harold Wilensky, professor emeritus of political science at Berkeley. More >>
Yael Tova Segalovitz
For graduate student Yael Segalovitz, a native of Israel with a passion for both Brazilian and Hebrew literature, a Regents’ Intern Fellowship made pursuing her Ph.D. possible. Funded in part by a generous gift from the Irving and Helen Betz Foundation, the fellowship would guarantee Segalovitz five years of funding. “This was more than financial help,” Segalovitz says. “It was an affirmation that what I do is important.” More >>
Peter Soler
UC Berkeley doctoral candidate Peter Soler joined a UC San Francisco team developing a small implantable device intended to mimic the functions of the human kidney. If successful, the invention could be a game-changer for two million patients suffering from end-stage renal disease. Soler credits his National Science Foundation fellowship with allowing him to seize that vision. More >>
Paige Johnson
Paige Johnson is a graduate student at the Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies (TDPS.) An Alabama native, she came to the TDPS following a year in Indonesia on a Fulbright grant after she completed her B.A. from Columbia University. More >>
David Spiciarich
David Spiciarich is a graduate student in Chemistry at UC Berkeley and also a “Lindau Fellow.” He was nominated in 2012 to represent the US at the annual meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, along with a selected group of graduate students. More >>
Amanda Hughen
The new Bay Bridge is still more than a year away from opening, but it’s already inspiring the art of Amanda Hughen, M.F.A. ’03. Hughen and her frequent collaborator, Jennifer Starkweather, created a series of abstract prints, paintings, and drawings that reflect the past and future of the Bay Bridge. More >>
